215 results about "Vanadium redox battery" patented technology

PCT No. PCT/AU94/00711 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 23, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 23, 1997 PCT Filed Nov. 17, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/12219 PCT Pub. Date May 4, 1995A method for stabilizing an electrolyte for use in a redox cell, in particular for stabilizing an electrolyte for use in an all-vanadium redox cell, a stabilized electrolyte, in particular an all-vanadium stabilized electrolyte, a redox cell, in particular an all-vanadium redox cell, comprising the stabilized electrolyte, a redox battery, in particular an all-vanadium redox battery, comprising the stabilized electrolyte, a process for recharging a discharged or partially discharged redox battery, in particular an all-vanadium redox battery, comprising the stabilized electrolyte, and a process for the production of electricity from a charged redox battery, and in particular a charged all-vanadium redox battery, comprising the stabilized electrolyte are disclosed. Also disclosed are a redox battery/fuel cell and a process for the production of electricity from a redox battery/fuel cell.

An energy storage system includes a vanadium redox battery that interfaces with a control system to optimize performance and efficiency. The control system calculates optimal pump speeds, electrolyte temperature ranges, and charge and discharge rates. The control system instructs the vanadium redox battery to operate in accordance with the prescribed parameters. The control system further calculates optimal temperature ranges and charge and discharge rates for the vanadium redox battery.

A power generation system includes a wind turbine generator and a vanadium redox battery to compensate for fluctuations in wind power. The wind turbine generator provides DC power that may be used to charge the vanadium redox battery. Generated DC power may also be used for power distribution and, if required, supplemented by DC power from the vanadium redox battery. The power generation system interfaces with a control system to optimize performance and efficiency.

A method for coupling an energy storage system to a variable energy supply system includes providing an energy storage system including at least one Vanadium redox battery and at least one battery charge controller. The method also includes electrically coupling the at least one battery charge controller to the variable energy supply system such that the at least one battery is configured to supply a substantially consistent energy output during fluctuating energy loads of the energy supply system.

The invention relates to a graphite fiber felt surface modification method and a modified graphite fiber felt, and belongs to the all vanadium redox flow battery electrode manufacture technical field. The method step is that the electrochemical cathode modification treatment is conducted before the anode oxidation treatment. When used as an electrode, a modified graphite fiber felt greatly improves the electrochemical activity in the preparation of an all vanadium redox flow battery, promotes the voltage efficiency and the battery energy efficiency during the battery discharging, and increases the stable discharging time, so the recharging and discharging performance of the all vanadium redox flow battery is greatly improved. Moreover, the method is easy for implantation and low in the cost. No particular devices are required. The invention provides a good-performance electrode material for the battery manufacture field.

A power generation system with a predetermined rating limit includes one or more wind turbine generators and a vanadium redox battery. The vanadium redox battery absorbs excess energy to ensure that the rating limit is not exceeded, provide system stability, and improve power generation availability. The power generation system may further include a control system to manage the vanadium redox battery's absorption and power generation to control system stability and system frequency.

The present invention relates generally to the production of a vanadium electrolyte, including a mixture of trivalent and tetravalent vanadium ions in a sulphuric acid solution, by the reactive dissolution of vanadium trioxide and vanadium pentoxide powders, the surface area and particle size characteristics being controlled for complete reaction to produce the desired ratio of V(III) to V(IV) ions in the solution. The solution may be suitable for direct use in the vanadium redox battery, or the solution can provide an electrolyte concentrate or slurry which can be reconstituted by the addition of water or sulphuric acid prior to use in the vanadium redox battery.

The invention discloses a vanadium redox battery and an electrolyte rebalancing method thereof. The vanadium redox battery comprises a battery stack, an anode electrolyte storage tank which is connected with the battery stack to form a first circulation loop, and a cathode electrolyte storage tank which is connected with the battery stack to form a second circulation loop, wherein the vanadium redox battery also comprises a low-valence vanadium ion solution supply device used for feeding a low-valence vanadium ion solution into the anode electrolyte storage tank, low-valence vanadium ions being divalent vanadium ions and/or trivalent vanadium ions; a high-valence vanadium ion solution recovery device used for recycling extra high-valence vanadium ion solution in the anode electrolyte storage tank, high-valenceions being tetravalent vanadium ions and/or pentavalent vanadium ions. In the vanadium redox battery, the low-valence vanadium ion solution supply device can feed low-valence vanadium ions into the anode electrolyte storage tank, so as to neutralize the pentavalent vanadium ions in the vanadium ions. The high-valence vanadium ion solution recovery device can recycle the high-valence vanadium ion solution left in the anode electrolyte, so as to lower the difference between the molar quantities of vanadium ions in the anode electrolyte and the cathode electrolyte.

The invention relates to a method for online detection of the concentration of electrolyte of an all vanadium redox flow battery. A divalent vanadium V (II) system, a trivalent vanadium V (III) system and a tetravalent vanadium V (IV) system are analyzed by the aid of ultraviolet and visible spectrophotometry, a divalent vanadium V (II) and trivalent vanadium V (III) mixed system and a trivalent vanadium V (III) and tetravalent vanadium V (IV) mixed system are analyzed by the aid of a K matrix method, and a curve equation of the concentration of the vanadium with various valence states and absorbance in the systems is deduced. The concentration of vanadium ions with various valence states in a test sample can be rapidly detected only by substituting absorbance data of the test sample with unknown concentration in the electrolyte of the vanadium battery into the absorbance-concentration curve equation measured and deduced by the method, and accuracy of the method is proved as compared with a national standard method. The method has a huge application prospect in terms of dynamically monitoring valence changes of the electrolyte of the vanadium ions and simultaneously, qualitatively and quantitatively checking the vanadium electrolyte with mixed valence states.

The present invention describes a vanadium halide redox cell prior to charging, a vanadium halide redox cell in a state of charge selected from the group below, and fully charged or partially charged vanadium halide redox cells, wherein the group Consists of zero state of charge and near zero state of charge. A vanadium halide redox cell prior to charging includes a positive half-cell having a positive half-cell solution including a halide electrolyte, a vanadium(III) halide, and a vanadium(IV) halide, and a negative half-cell having a A negative half-cell solution comprising a halide electrolyte, a vanadium(III) halide and a vanadium(IV) halide, wherein the amounts of the vanadium(III) halide, vanadium(IV) halide and halide ions in the positive and negative half-cell solutions are set to such that in the first charging step comprising charging the vanadium halide redox cell prior to charging, it is possible to prepare a vanadium halide redox cell having a state of charge selected from the group consisting of zero state of charge and With a near-zero state-of-charge composition, the vanadium halide redox cell mainly includes vanadium(IV) halide in the positive half-cell solution and V(III) halide in the negative half-cell solution. A vanadium halide redox cell at a state of charge selected from the group consisting of a positive half-cell and a negative half-cell consisting of zero and near-zero states of charge, the positive half-cell having a halide electrolyte comprising: and a positive half-cell solution of a vanadium halide mainly vanadium(IV) halide, a negative half-cell having a negative half-cell solution comprising a halide electrolyte and a vanadium halide mainly of a vanadium(III) halide, wherein the positive half-cell solution The amount of vanadium(IV) halide and the amount of vanadium(III) halide in the negative half-cell solution are set such that the vanadium halide redox cell is at a state of charge selected from the group consisting of zero state of charge and close to zero state of charge composition. A fully charged vanadium halide redox cell consists of a positive half cell with a positive half cell comprising a halide electrolyte, a polyhalide complex, a vanadium(IV) halide, and a vanadium(V) halide solution, the negative half-cell has a negative half-cell solution comprising a halide electrolyte and a vanadium(II) halide, wherein the molar concentration of vanadium(V) and polyhalide complexes: the molar concentration of vanadium(II) halide is approximately stoichiometrically balanced. A partially charged vanadium halide redox cell includes a positive half cell with a positive half cell including a halide electrolyte, a polyhalide complex, a vanadium(IV) halide, and a vanadium(V) halide solution, the negative half-cell has a negative half-cell solution comprising a halide electrolyte, a vanadium (II) halide and a vanadium (III) halide, wherein the number of moles of the polyhalide complex and the vanadium (V) halide: vanadium halide ( The moles of II) are approximately stoichiometrically balanced.

This invention relates to proton exchange complex film used in vanadium oxidation-reduction battery and its process method, wherein the film uses the inorganic nanometer materials polyvinylidene fluoride as base part and then introduces organic acid with sulfonic acid root through autopolymer to get aim product. The process method to make film with good proton conductivity property and good isolation vanadium ion transparency and chemical stability with simple process and low film cost. The film conducting rate can achieve 10 to 2 S/cm and the vanadium ion transparency rate is as 10 to 7 cm2/min.

The invention relates to a method for preparing electrolyte for a flow battery with full vanadium oxidation reduction, which is characterized by the processes: mixing the three oxidation vanadium and the sulphuric acid with a specified volume of proportion of 1. 84, then calcining the mixture under 100 DEG C to 300DEG C in a pipe type electric stove to get vanadium compound in green color, at last dissolving the calcined product into the dilute sulfuric acid to get the vanadium electrolyte used in a vanadium battery in which 4 valence vanadium and 3 valence vanadium take 50 per cent of the total vanadium quantity. The electrolyte for a flow battery with whole vanadium oxidation reduction prepared by the method reduces the emission of SO2, simplifies the preparation work procedure and is beneficial for scale production and environment protection of the flow battery with full vanadium oxidation reduction.

The invention discloses a preparation method for a flexible inorganic/organic composite proton exchange membrane. The method comprises the following steps: 1, dissolving a proton conducting polymer in an organic solvent or water so as to obtain a proton conducting polymer solution; 2, mixing an inorganic proton conducting material or an inorganic proton conducting material containing organic components with the proton conducting polymer solution for mechanical ball milling so as to obtain a mixture in which the inorganic proton conducting material or the inorganic proton conducting material containing organic components disperses in the proton conducting polymer solution; 3, pouring the mixture on a substrate, and allowing the solvent to volatilize and the mixture to solidify so as to prepare the flexible inorganic/organic composite proton exchange membrane. The flexible inorganic/organic composite proton exchange membrane prepared in the invention has the characteristics of proton conducting capacity, flexibility, stable dimension, heat resistance and mechanical strength at a certain degree, and can be used in the field of fuel cells and related fields in need of proton exchange membranes like all-vanadium redox flow batteries, industrial electrolysis of chlor-alkali, super capacitors and sensors.